Dr. Vaclav Polacek, M.D., Ph.D.

MEDICAL DEGREE

• Charles University Teaching Hospital

CERTIFICATIONS

• First Degree Certificate in General Surgery
• Certificate in Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery
• License from the Czech Medical Chamber for Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery

AWARDS AND POSITIONS

• Prize of the Czech Literary Fund for 1986 – for the article Changes in Lymphocyte Activity in Severe Burns
• Chairman of the Czech-American symposium on plastic surgery PSEF Prague, 1992
• Chaired the individual sections of a number of symposia in this country and abroad. National representative in the European Burns Association, 1989 – 1991
• Named to the committee of the congress of the International Confederation PRCH in San Francisco, 1999

STUDY STAYS AND COMPLETED COURSES

• Pre-graduate stay at the University Clinic in Hamburg, 1969
• Clinic of Plastic Surgery in Helsinki, Finland, 1980
• Clinic of Plastic Surgery in Bratislava, Slovakia, 1981
• University of California and the General Hospital in San Francisco, Prof. Luis Vasconez and Dr. Juris Bunkis,1984
• Immunology – new information in the HLA system, ILF Prague, 1984
• Microsurgical course at the University in Janez, 1987
• Plastic and reconstruction surgery, Dr. Juris Bunkis, Blackhawk, California, 1989
• The University of California in San Diego, Prof. Jack C. Fisher, 1990
• The University of California in San Diego, 1992
• Central European Course of Aesthetic Surgery, Prague, 1994
• Dimensional breast replacements, Nashville, Tennessee, 1994
• Dimensional breast replacements, Prague, 1996

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• The Czech Medical Chamber
• The Czech Hand Surgery Society
• The Czech Society of Plastic surgery – JEP

Surgeon review:

Lynn (Tummy Tuck, Arm Lift Review)

Eva (Eyelid surgery Review)